ABSTRACT
The intellectual intersection of gender identities and fashion has, in the past two decades, become surprisingly well trod. Scholars from a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and art history to economics and material culture, have studied how clothing shapes self-image and, more broadly, speaks to socioeconomic, cultural, and political affiliations. The nuances of dress silently broadcast one's own adherence to or rejection of society's definitions of masculinity and femininity. Yet, with all of the trail-blazing scholarship published in the last two decades, the study of clothing remains, for the most part, the study of women's clothing. If “clothes make the man,” then why has the majority of scholarship focused on women? (see Breward; Cole; Deslandes; Martin and Koda).
